Hardcore Geek

Here’s a little something for all you iPhone-using Scrantonians. I pulled the Scranton bit from the Biden/Palin debate skit on last week’s SNL and turned it into a ringtone.
Listen here (Mp3).

Download it here.
Be proud, my Scranton brothers and sisters. We come from the worst place on earth!

Earlier today, my first article appeared on the online version of the Journal of New England Technology. I’m quite excited about it, and will be writing a new one every other month. This time, I wrote about Twitter’s humble beginnings and impact on business.
Much thanks to Chris Gillis and Ged Maheux for taking the time [...]

An iPhone runs Digital Clock [App Store link] while resting in a home made stand. Cute idea, actually.

At Bat, one of my favorite iPhone apps, had been updated to include post-season info.
I will very gladly pay for the ‘09 version.

I was chatting with a fellow Cape Codder just moments ago. We’ll call this person “Francis.” I’ve known Francis for a while. Years, in fact. Francis is in his mid 30’s like me and works for himself in the service industry. We got on the topic of his website and then blogs. Here’s what Francis [...]

Apple, please don’t fix this bug.

Here are the lucky apps chosen to live on my iPhone’s 1st page. What are yours?

The Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft ads will stop running as of today. I guess I was wrong.
Instead, Microsoft is running new ads featuring an actor who looks and dresses just like John Hodgman’s PC character, saying, “Hello, I’m a PC, and I’ve been made into a stereotype.”
Celebrity cameos continue (without Seinfeld), including Bill Gates, Eva [...]

I could use your help. I’m setting up a Vanilla Forum. Everything is working well, except for the process of approving new users. When I click to confirm a user reqeust, I get the following error:
A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred
Technical information (for support personel):
Error Message
An error occurred while sending the email.
Affected Elements
Email.Send();
For additional support [...]

iPhone firmware 2.1 was released today, and I noticed that it adds an “Apps” statistic to the iPhone content bar in iTunes. That’s nice, but I don’t know how I feel about yellow, green and orange next to each other.